RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Bang on a Can All-Stars : Gerald Barry, Julia Wolfe
Sun, 01 Mar
|Main Stage, National Concert Hall
Where and When
01 Mar 2020, 20:00 – 21:30
Main Stage, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Saint Kevin's, Dublin 2, Ireland
About the Event
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Gerald Barry Viola Concerto
Julia Wolfe Flower Power
Commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Raidió Teilifís Éireann, The RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Lawrence Power perform the Irish premiere of Gerald Barry's thrilling Viola Concerto.
"Yelp! Whoop! Bang! Holler! Gerald Barry’s Viola Concerto saunters through a slapstick landscape of stubbed toes, runaway trains and collapsing houses, with wobble sheet, cymbal and bass drum as exclamation points. Composed for Lawrence Power as part of Britten Sinfonia’s Beethoven and Barry cycle with Thomas Adès, it’s a grand musical joke in which the soloist doggedly practises technical exercises of fourths and octaves while chaos unfolds around him." Anna Picard, The Times, 24 May 2019.
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra and New York’s electric Bang on a Can All-Stars join forces in Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power, inspired by a radical revolutionary moment - the late 1960's - a time when experimental…